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      Ancestry

      Engaged Employer

      Ancestry reviews

      3.5

      52% would recommend to a friend

      (785 total reviews)
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      Howard Hochhauser

      80% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      Ancestry has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 785 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ancestry employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      785 reviews
      1.0
      Mar 8, 2018

      bad management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      free catered lunch once per week in SF

      Cons

      Ancestry's management is horrible and obsessed with catchphrases that they haven't even considered the true meaning of- ex. "speed of innovation". If they knew what speed of innovation was, they wouldn't be years behind 23andMe in the rollout of DNA health products. The company is run as if engineers are just meaningless cogs in the machine which have no input into the products they develop. The company is very management heavy- the ratio of managers to engineers is strangely high. Also the pay is low compared with other companies in the area (SF).

      4.0
      Mar 8, 2018

      Awesome Company

      Junior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amenities, Good People, Really inspiring work

      Cons

      Culture is changing due to going public, used to value employees more.

      5.0
      Feb 24, 2018

      Ancestry is great

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great culture. Really interesting and complex company with a lot of things going on.

      Cons

      Ancestry is growing rapidly, so sometimes feels a little frenetic.

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